The Hunker Holiday Guide to Gifting

The Hunker Holiday Guide to Gifting

The best gifts are an expression of our regard for the recipient: a way to show someone how well we know their taste, their personality, and their interests.

And so, for Hunker's first-ever holiday, we've chosen to spotlight some of our favorite items across a range of different purveyors and passion points (as well as prices). They all, however, share something important in common: good design worthy of thoughtful presentation. Check out what's topping our list this season, and feel free to add them to yours.

Alison Roman's shockingly affordable cookbook offers recipes that are somehow both attainable and elevated — her food is all about fresh ingredients and the right seasoning. Roman's ideas are also vegetable heavy, so this book works for the couple who is half-veg, half-carnivore.

Danish design company Ferm Living's brass candle holder is a balancing act — the ball acts as a counterweight to the base, creating a poised and delicate accessory. (The arc also acts as a handle in case you want to use it to creepily walk through a dark hallway.)

Coqui Coqui is a luxury hotel and spa with a handful of outposts across the Yucatan peninsula. Each location has its own style and theme. (The Merida location, for example, is set in an aging Belle Époque building.) To create an entire experience, Coqui Coqui also boasts a perfumeria, where they create scents inspired by their residences. Our pick: Coco Coco, a thick, beachy fragrance dripping in coconut.

From one of Japan's legacy brands, this pocket knife is the type of utilitarian object perfect for the handy gentleman or gentlelady in your life — but it also looks great poised on top of a stack of books.

This L.A.-based ceramics duo is one of our favorites. Each piece is hand-thrown and hand-painted and the result is always something with the most pleasing aesthetics and textures. While this match striker isn't, shall we say, a household necessity, it is the type of unusual detail that can bring a room together.

Credits

Photography: Rickett and Sones

Art Direction: Paul Anderson & Brooke Wolin

Words: Leonora Epstein

Thank you Lucia, for speaking with us and sharing your record collection
and your musical influences.